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+Diagonal slash marks
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+Sometimes, instead of a note or notes,
+a diagonal slash mark is printed on a staff.
+This is used for various purposes,
+such as strumming a chord (in a
+guitar part), or to mean that the previous beat should be
+repeated or
+that a note should be improvised.
+You can get slash marks for all notes by setting the
+<A HREF="param.html#notehead">noteheads parameter.</A>
+<BR><PRE>
+noteheads = "allslash"
+</PRE><BR>
+or if you want to use hollow slashes for half notes and longer
+<BR><PRE>
+noteheads = "slash"
+</PRE><BR>
+Usually such slash marks do not include a stem,
+so you may wish to also set
+<BR><PRE>
+stemlen=0
+</PRE><BR>
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+If you just want specific chords to be slashes, you can use the
+chord head shape override:
+<BR><PRE>
+1: b;[ hs "allslash"; len 0 ]... ;;;
+bar
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